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"Far Eastern Tales" is a collection of short stories born of Maugham's experiences in Malaya, Singapore and other outposts of the former British Empire. Whether portraying a ship-borne flight from a lover's curse, murder in the jungle, or a marriage shattered by a past indiscretion, they all reveal Maugham at his best - sometimes caustic, sometimes gently comic, but always the shrewd and human judge of character and soul.
| ISBN | 0099282844 | | Pages | 288 | | ISBN13 | 9780099282846
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 220 | | Publisher | Vintage | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Vintage | | Series title | Vintage classics | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9780749316020 | | Publication date | 04 May 2000 | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Non-book description | B | | Width (mm) | 132 | | DEWEY | 823.912 | | Spine width (mm) | 17 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | General |
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If all else perish, there will remain a storyteller's world...that is exclusively and forever Maugham, a world of verandah and prahu which we enter as well as we do that of Conan Doyle's Baker Street, and with a happy and eternal homecoming The Times Maugham teases out buried secrets as mesmerising as the heat and as menacing as the surrounding jungle Observer Ideally you should listen to these stories lying in a long cane chair on the veranda of a dark bungalow sipping a gin and bitters - not that Maugham's writing needs any further atmospheric embellishment. Like Kipling and Conrad, Maugham transports us to a long-since-vanished and distinctly non-PC world of hard-drinking colonial planters and traders and their frosty memsahibs Guardian  Be the first to write a customer review
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